ZAVCXL0005 - Ubuntu

Introduction

This is the configuration page for the Ubuntu Trusty 14.04 partition on ZAVCWL0035.

Configuration Files

All configuration files can be found here.

Installed Applications

Common applications

See Common configuration for Linux.

Essential

Virtualbox (package, repo Repository)	If virtualbox is autostarting (and fails), remove it with: sudo update-rc.d -f virtualbox remove
Python pip (python-pip)
Application (package, repo Repository)	sudo apt-...
Application (package)	[YYYY-MM-DD] Update to vX.Y TBC
Courier (package)	Do not install courier-pop*
rsync daemon (rsync xinetd)	Create file /etc/xinetd.d/rsync: service rsync { disable = no socket_type = stream wait = no user = root server = /usr/bin/rsync server_args = --daemon log_on_failure += USERID flags = IPv6 } Create file /etc/rsyncd.conf: max connections = 1 log file = /var/log/rsync.log max verbosity = 3 transfer logging = yes log format = %o %i %h [%a] %m (%u) %f %l timeout = 6000 read only = yes list = yes uid = root gid = root auth users = backuppc secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets [boot] comment = /boot partition (480MB) path = /boot [home] comment = /home partition (211GB) path = /home [root] comment = / partition (20GB) path = / Create file /etc/rsyncd.secrets: backuppc:XXXXXXXXXXXXX Exclude files/directory by renaming with extension .nobak and symlinking (all tmp/, /sage, /usr/local/texlive).
NTP (ntp)	synchronize with NTP server automatically Use ST network gateway as ntp server (see netstat -rn). Add to /etc/ntp.conf: server 10.137.3.254 iburst
S.M.A.R.T (smartmontools)	See S.M.A.R.T.
Opera (opera)	Config reset script ~/bin/reset_opera.sh

Local

HP MyRoom (hpmyroom libxtst6:i386 libxss1:i386)	To connect, select connect with Key.
Youtube DL (youtube_dl)	Install with sudo pip install youtube_dl
WMCTRL (wmctrl)
Thunderbird (thunderbird)	Use Maildir as data store [1]: set pref mail.serverDefaultStoreContractID to @mozilla.org/msgstore/maildirstore;1 Add-on Virtual Identity
Wireshark (wireshark)	Enable wireshark for non-super user [2]: sudo dpkg-reconfigure wireshark-common sudo gpasswd -a $USER wireshark
ia32 libraries (gcc-multilib g++-multilib)	We go for solution given here: sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib g++-multilib Look at package ia32-libs-multiarch
Jupyter
Owncloud

Uninstalled

Application (package)

[YYYY-MM-DD] Update Additional configuration settings

System Settings

1st install	TBC
Kernel	Switched to LTS HWE stack (kernel 4.4.10 and up): sudo apt-get install --install-recommends linux-generic-hwe-16.04 xserver-xorg-hwe-16.04
File system	TBC
Network	TBC
Preferences	TBC
Miscellaneous	Unity Tweak: Search: uncheck Search online sources, uncheck Show "More Suggestions", uncheck Show "Recently Used" applications Additional: Open the first panel menu Alt-F10

Issues and To Do

Issues

See Common Issues.

To Do

• To Do — Description

Done

• Done — Description

Stability

• 37 days uptime with kernel linux-image-4.4.0-72-generic!
• 5 days uptime with kernel linux-image-4.4.0-79-generic.
• 1 crash (can't wake up, SysRq-REISUB not working) with kernel linux-image-4.4.0-81-generic